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vegan thanksgiving menu

I always hated typical Thanksgiving food. Having to suffer through meals with the Pennsylvania Dutch side of the family and their bland, boring, bullshit ass food was never fun, and became pretty much unendurable after going vegetarian. It got better after a couple years when my mom would hook it up w/ a tofurkey and corpse-free stuffing, which is edible, but not delicious. Well, the head matriarch has been a few years dead, and so has her senseless repression of flavorful expression (specifically garlic). SO, there are a handful of vegans and vegetarians at the table this year, and I'm thinking if I'm up for it, I'll cook up a whole bunch of appropriately autumnal dishes that aren't wanting for flavor and spice. I have a few ideas. But what's on YOUR menu this year?

Thanksgiving is a holiday of dubious origin where you get a four day weekend at the end of November, and you have to have a big family meal. The point is you are supposed to give thanks to the poor pilgrims that sacrificed so much for all the things you damn kids take for granted, and also to the natives who graciously yielded their lands so the European settlers could improve it.

errk reading what thankgiving is irritates me. the adams family 2 is so funny.

I cook the thanksgiving meal, my kid counts on it, all her friends moms invite her over for the real thing but she wants me to cook and enjoys our vegan take of it.
i try few but flavor and laborious packed dishes with lots of garlic. its usually the biscuits and dessert that really makes it stand out. and i make sure there is enough for left overs all weekend so i dont have to cook for a couple of days. thanksgiving is mashed potatoes and gray with biscuits for breakfast for two or three days in a row. if the biscuits last that long.

I still haven't finished leaching the acorns I gathered on Monday. I got too many red oak, which are extremely bitter. The chestnut oaks are almost mild enough to eat raw. I hear white oak acorns have way less tannin too, so I'm going to go with those for the big thankstaking day meal. This batch is a trial run.